Cloud Computing vs. Utility Computing vs. Grid Computing
Every session to introduce Cloud Infrastructure Services course ends with a question on how Grid Computing is different from Cloud Computing ? Most of academia in India speak of Grid and hence i have seen academicians confuse it with Cloud Computing. This post today will share some insight into comparing Cloud Computing with Utility Computing and Grid Computing Historically, Cloud Computing has evolved through Grid and then Utility Computing. In Grid Computing Environment , the workload is distributed or transferred to nodes with needed computing resources. Usually a chain of nodes, such as servers, are networked to form the grid. These nodes are typically clustered and are kept ready to handle the distributed workload. Grid computing enables parallel computing, although its utility is best for large workloads. The emergence of the virtualization technology at storage, servers, and network allows organizations to...